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JULY 12, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Musings on Joining New Social Media Sites, Site Recommendations and On-Going Participation A while back I set up accounts on Amplify and Clipmarks. One day, four new sites. What are your experiences with trying out new sites?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? by Adam Sherk on September 17, 2009 Now that the improved Facebook Pages have been around for a while I wanted to check the level of engagement that major news sites are achieving with them.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How To Leverage Your Social Networking Sites When Visiting Influence Centers & Referral Sources While this post is specific to my friends at Senior Helpers , the underlying principle is applicable for all businesses – so read on!

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites on Twitter: Who is Making the Most Impact? But Twitter, Facebook in some cases Digg still represent the majority of social media referrals to many news sites, so they continue to be a priority. 2,461,060 2 @cnnbrk 77.3% 3,139,883 3 @TIME 76.9%

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MARCH 22, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials Proceed with Caution When Being Active on Social Media Sites Being active on social media networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter is a great way to build business relationships. link] [link] [.]

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AUGUST 24, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Get People to Your Social Sites and Keep them Coming Back You have all of these great social sites but nobody knows about them! Here are some ways to drive people to your social sites and then keep them engaged.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 14, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Help Haiti: News Sites Promote Ways to Donate by Adam Sherk on January 14, 2010 As the devastation and human tragedy caused by the Haiti earthquake grows, people are flocking to the news media for information, and more importantly to learn ways that they can help.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately. The short answer? Not so many.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk 25 Major News Sites Ranked by Page Speed by Adam Sherk on April 13, 2010 Now that site speed is officially a Google ranking factor, site performance and page load time are important for SEO as well as usability. So which news sites fared best?

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Real-time Search Optimization for News Sites by Adam Sherk on March 16, 2010 The major search engines are making real-time search a priority, resulting in good visibility opportunities for news sites especially for breaking news.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites by Adam Sherk on August 7, 2009 This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day. tweets per day.

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Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

But at this early stage, how strong are the marketing opportunities for news sites? At a minimum news sites should set up an official profile and experiment with “buzz this” buttons on their templates. Facebook itself is making a push to get users to create personalized news channels that benefit both users and news sites.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 12, 2010

It sounds a lot like the practices of some industry blogs and news aggregators today. Publishers: Solve Tracking Code, Duplicate Content Issues with the Canonical URL Tag So Far so Good for Seattlepi.com Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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JULY 30, 2010

Saying It Social Your Social Media Marketing Resource Home About Polls Our Services Testimonials How to Subscribe to Facebook Business/Fan Page Posts in Your Favorite Feed Reader Hint: You can also use these tactics to get the RSS Feed URL of your page if you wish to import your Facebook Page’s feed on your blog or other sites!

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Tips & Guides Mashable – Twitter Lists, Resources & How-Tos [link] How To Blog: A Beginner?s s Blog Publishing Guide [link] 10 Things to Do Before Launching Your Blog [link] Writing for Bloggers – A Quick Guide on Style, Substance and Strategy [link] Creating a web presence – why bother? Buzz Index – Today?s

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

1st Quarter: Blog mentions Two days after the conference championships, which team is being blogged about more? Google Blog Search has 519,933 total results for “Indianapolis Colts” and 20,776 in the past week. Advantage: SAINTS __ 2nd Quarter: Digg Ok, which team has seen the most activity on Digg?

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MARCH 18, 2010

In the Address bar, type the URL (don’t forget the [link] of the social media site that corresponds with the icon you have selected. Now you are ready to start promoting your sites to everyone you email. link] 1 day ago When you have anchor text and/or links to social sites etc on your blog/website PLEASE make them open in a new.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

But while you’re going through this year’s top trends, don’t forget to apply the same practice to your own sites. Things that news and content sites should look at include: What terms and content types brought in the most search engine referral traffic? What sections, special features, individual articles, etc.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 16, 2010

New Service #1: ‘How to Use LinkedIn: Setting up a Profile and Beyond’ Webinar At Saying It Social we acknowledge that LinkedIn is one of the most important social networking sites for business. However, it is not one of the sites that we manage for our clients. Let me explain.

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JULY 22, 2010

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit July 22, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Uncategorized | contest , social media advice , social media marketing One blogger likes this post No comments yet. link] 1 day ago When you have anchor text and/or links to social sites etc on your blog/website PLEASE make them open in a new.

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APRIL 6, 2010

Please remember, if you have your current FB URL linked in your blog, email signature, website, etc etc… you will need to find all instances of the link and change to your new URL. link] 1 day ago When you have anchor text and/or links to social sites etc on your blog/website PLEASE make them open in a new.

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AUGUST 13, 2010

via The BrandBuilder Blog) Hope everyone who is currently running a social media marketing program or has someone doing it on their behalf watches this video! via The BrandBuilder Blog) [.] via The BrandBuilder Blog) | August 13, 2010 | Reply [.] The rest is here: Back by popular demand: The Basics of Social Media R.O.I.

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JULY 22, 2010

It's also perfect for any retailer, restaurant, car dealer, or other multi-unit compan … Read More via PR Workbench Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit July 22, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Social Media Marketing , Social Networking 2 bloggers like this post No comments yet. Leave a comment Click here to cancel reply. .&#

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Here are two sites that will help you do this: KnowEm : KnowEm has the highest number of sites (over 350) available for checking username availability. namechk : Covering 72 major social networking sites, namechk is simple, fast, and easy to use. If you don’t have a presence, you appear as if you’re not very savvy.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? Search Marketing Dwarfs Social Media in Interactive Marketing Budgets Leave a Comment Subscribe (1-2 posts per week) Connect with Me Recent Posts Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 4, 2010

Also I’ve only been blogging here for about six months, so I’m still building up momentum. So belatedly here are my 10 most popular posts of 2009, by pageviews: Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? The Most Popular NFL Teams on Twitter and Facebook Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 1, 2009

A tactic that some news and content sites employ is monitoring Google’s Hot Trends list in an effort to identify hot topics and then quickly produce matching content around them. Many search trends come and go quickly, so sites that cover a topic after its peak will likely miss out on the larger search engine visibility opportunity.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Social Media 19% of the public regularly (7%) or sometimes (12%) get news or news headlines through social networking sites. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit February 25, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Uncategorized | organic search marketing organic vs ppc , organic search results , pay per click , ppc One blogger likes this post No comments yet. .&# Does anyone else share my same frustration or is it not really an issue for you? if yes, please explain.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit March 11, 2010 - Posted by akstout18 | Uncategorized | search engine optimization , seo , seo tools , social medai marketing , social media , social media tools , social networking 1 Comment » Thank you for the list, it is extremely helpful! .&#

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Newsweek on Tumblr: Good Effort, Needs More Engagement by Adam Sherk on January 6, 2010 Awareness of Newsweek’s Tumblr site has been increasing of late. That’s critical for giving the site stand-alone value as opposed to just being a feeder site to Newsweek.com.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

CNN.com is soliciting user feedback by including a prominent survey link at the top of the page: It will be interesting to see how NewsPulse changes user behavior on the site over time. It has the potential to increase the number of stories read per visit, resulting in more page views and time on site.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 19, 2010

Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964? Adam is part of the Define Search Strategies consulting team, which is owned by The New York Times Company.

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APRIL 23, 2010

link] 1 day ago When you have anchor text and/or links to social sites etc on your blog/website PLEASE make them open in a new. When you have anchor text and/or links to social sites etc on your blog/website PLEASE make them open in a new tab/window! if yes, please explain.

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